Whats the next big area of computing ripe for virtualization, and why?
Thomas Bittman: Actually, most enterprises have just started server virtualization. We believe that about 3% to 4% of the workloads running on x86 architecture servers have been migrated to virtual machines so far–higher for large enterprises. Large enterprises will be expanding their server virtualization usage for years. Frank Gillett: The next big thing in virtualization is upgrading the rest of the IT infrastructure technology to work well with server virtualization. This means updates to systems management, networked storage, network management and network-based resources such as load balancers, accelerators and firewalls. John Humphreys: All of these have technical and economic hurdles that must be overcome, but given the industry’s focus on virtualization, these gaps have already started to close. Chris Wolf: I see management orchestration as being the next major element of the enterprise ready to leverage virtualization. As workload increases, systems will automatically be bro
